Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

For reference, 4 teams at North Star (60 team event) didn't pass inspection until Friday Morning, and 10 teams at 10K (63 team event) didn't pass inspection until Friday morning. They all had serious issues that they worked hard to fix throughout the day on Thursday. These are the same teams that a 6 hour robot access period wouldn't help. If they're oblivious enough to have a 140" frame perimeter, I seriously doubt that they will have the capability to fix that frame perimeter in their 6 hour robot access period on their own.

Keep in mind these teams would have had the same issues if they were at districts and probably wouldn't have seen the field til later on Day 1. The first events of the years are typically the hardest and have a handful of teams who are in that same situation of working into qualifications to get inspected.

All you can do is educate teams on where they need to try to be walking in the door and give them some resources to succeed (send out the inspection sheet before bag day and encourage teams to run through it).